Category: Features

Times Past

A Shetland woman, who is watching with keen interest events in Haiti, is Mrs Martha Goodlad, of the Cutts, Trondra.

February 18, 2011 | 12.07am

Times Past

There were signs this week that Lord Lyon, the heraldic official who regulates the use of flags, banners and standards in Scotland, may have found

February 11, 2011 | 12.13am

Letter from Edinburgh

The National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music is based at Plockton High School on the west coast, two hours drive from Inverness.

February 11, 2011 | 12.12am

Shetland Life: Editorial

The world has a problem. As the population of the planet rapidly increases – to an estimated nine billion by the middle of this century

February 6, 2011 | 8.38am

Community: In transition

All across Shetland, projects are being developed to encourage people to grow more of their own food and to build community resilience in the face…

February 6, 2011 | 8.37am

Notes from 60° north

For Christmas, I got a new pair of winter mitts. Handmade from a timber wolf pelt, they look like bear paws on my hands when

February 6, 2011 | 8.36am

History: The baby in the kaleyard

Marsali Taylor investigates a disturbing tale from nineteenth century Walls. I was told the basis of this story many years ago by the late Geordie

February 6, 2011 | 12.35am

Nelson’s column

I have just returned from a three month epic saga in my old home town of Glasgow. Eight weeks lost in the wilds of the

February 6, 2011 | 12.34am

Past Times: Heddell’s Park – top award

Local people were delighted at the weekend when it became known that, for the first time since their annual awards were started in 1937, the

February 6, 2011 | 12.34am

Past Life: Shetland’s future as seen by a schoolboy

Just now we have plenty of oil and coal but these two important resources won’t last for ever. In 20 or 30 years’ time the

February 6, 2011 | 12.33am

Times Past

Fish processors in Shetland have been warned that they could lose council financial help if their products do not come up to standards set by

February 3, 2011 | 12.09am

Letter from Westminster

Politics can sometimes be a slow burner. Three and a half years ago the Liberal Democrats started to call for a review of the powers

February 3, 2011 | 12.08am

Times Past

The legendary Shetland scholar Laurence Leask Johnson, who died last month, has left his entire collection of more than 2000 books to the library –

January 27, 2011 | 1.44pm